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Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939, Detroit, United States), aged 87, is an American filmmaker (born 1939). Coppola is best known for Tetro, Supernova and Jack. Coppola's honours include Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay and Academy Award for Best Picture.

Francis Ford Coppola’s zodiac sign is Aries, Chinese zodiac is Earth Rabbit, with Life Path 33 in numerology.

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Francis Ford Coppola’s AsterNym identity

The Evergreen Diplomat

Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 33 is traditionally called a master path. It represents teaching through care, service and example.

Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 33, on the emotional plane.

How common is the name Francis in the U.S.?

#420

US rank in 2025

~320,322

Americans share it since 1880

1918

its peak year

The SSA recorded 3,721 American boys and 299 girls named Francis in 1939: 53rd among boys and 381st among girls for the year.

US Social Security Administration public records

What Francis’s name adds up to

Worked from the name as published, letter by letter.

11

Expression · sensing what is coming

11

Soul Urge · insight

9

Personality · generous, worldly

The name opens on F (6) and closes on S (1). The value it repeats most is 6, which numerology reads as care.

Pythagorean letter values · A=1 to I=9, then J=1 again

Francis’s lucky numbers, colours and stones

Traditional correspondences, calculated not chosen.

Lucky numbers

33 · 3 · 4 · 6

Lucky colours

Yellow & Ochre

Lucky day

Tuesday

Direction

• Center

Season

the turning of seasons

Stones

Diamond, Red Coral, Citrine

Flower constellation

🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌼 Chrysanthemum

White · Crimson · Gold

The record

What sets Francis apart

Jackie Chan (1954) and Russell Crowe (1964) share the birthday in another year, so the sun sits where it sits here.

What the chart says

Francis, according to the stars

Core essence

Francis leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Francis is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.

How Francis wants to be loved

Francis wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Francis, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.

How Francis creates

How Francis makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Francis builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.

Instinct

Instinct: Francis is gentle and diplomatic, a Rabbit year, and their gut reaction is to keep the peace and read the room. Graceful, kind, quietly discerning, and much tougher than the soft manners suggest. The Earth year grounds it: practical, patient, someone people lean on.

Purpose

Purpose: Life Path 33 is the master teacher. Francis is here to lift people, to care at a scale that becomes a calling, to make compassion practical. Devoted, wise, sometimes exhausted by how much they feel for everyone, and learning to keep a little for themselves.

Triggers

Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Francis does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.

Computed from Francis's birth date. Working below.

Where Francis sits

Six lines

Francis’s dot comes from the chart; yours is where you put it.

Intimate circleWide network
Francis

You likely balance a tight inner circle with a wider orbit you dip into.

DeliberateSpontaneous
Francis

You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.

PrivateExpressive
Francis

You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.

Cool off firstResolve immediately
Francis

You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.

PracticalVisionary
Francis

You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.

Gradual trustImmediate chemistry
Francis

You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.

✦ A real star from their birth night

Dedicate a star to Francis Ford Coppola

Three stars chosen from the real sky above Detroit on the night they were born. Choose the story that connects you.

A 9 p.m. reference sky, not the birth minute. Dedications are commemorative and confer no ownership of stars.

The sky over Detroit that night

Computed for 42.33°N, 9 p.m. local sky.

At 9 p.m. the star closest to straight overhead at Detroit was Alkaphrah, in Ursa Major, 82.6° up.

Of the 103 catalog stars above the horizon, Sirius was the brightest.

Detroit sits at 42.3°N, low enough that no headline star is circumpolar: everything bright rises and sets there.

Canopus, Rigil Kentaurus, Achernar, Hadar, Acrux, Mimosa and Toliman cannot be seen from Detroit at all: they sit past the −47.7° declination limit this latitude imposes.

Sun 20° below the horizon, Moon down and 83% lit at waning gibbous.

How unusual Francis's chart is

Chart pattern score

43 / 100 · Quietly distinctive

3-planet stellium in Aries · No Air planets · 1 planet at a critical degree

An AsterNym index built from stelliums, yods, grand crosses and chart shape. It is not a population percentile, and a high score is not a better chart. Without a birth time the houses are left out of it.

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Francis Ford Coppola in 15 seconds

Aries Sun

Impatient, and usually right to be.

Francis Ford Coppola's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 7, 1939, so no birth time is needed to settle it.

What Aries means →

Earth Rabbit

Keeps the peace, keeps the plan.

Francis Ford Coppola was born on April 7, 1939, which falls in a Earth Rabbit year of the Chinese calendar.

What the Rabbit means →

Life Path 33

Lifts the room by example.

Francis Ford Coppola's birth date, April 7, 1939, reduces to Life Path 33 under the numerology method AsterNym uses.

What Life Path 33 means →

What stands out in Francis’s chart

Francis’s birth chart

Reference chart · birth time unknown

Positions are checked across the whole date. The Moon ranges from 25° to 8° Scorpio or Sagittarius depending on the hour.

AriesTaurusGeminiCancerLeoVirgoLibraScorpioSagittariusCapricornAquariusPisces123456789101112Mercury grinds against Mars · Square, 0.2° orbVenus opens doors for Mars · Sextile, 0.8° orbJupiter faces off with Neptune · Opposition, 1.4° orbMoon flows with Pluto · Trine, 2.5° orbSun fuses with Saturn · Conjunction, 3.5° orbUranus flows with Neptune · Trine, 5.2° orbJupiter flows with Pluto · Trine, 6.5° orbMars flows with Uranus · Trine, 6.6° orbSun in Aries · 16°59′☉16°Moon in Sagittarius · 1°45′☽1°Mercury in Aries · 9°14′ · retrograde☿℞9°Venus in Pisces · 8°41′♀8°Mars in Capricorn · 9°27′♂9°Jupiter in Pisces · 22°42′♃22°Saturn in Aries · 20°30′♄20°Uranus in Taurus · 16°03′♅16°Neptune in Virgo · 21°18′ · retrograde♆℞21°Pluto in Cancer · 29°14′ · retrograde♇℞29°

No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1.

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Conjunction 0°
Sextile 60°
Square 90°
Trine 120°
Opposition 180°

Placements

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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow

Aspects across every possible birth time

  • stableMercurysquareMars0.0° to 0.8° orb

    Francis’s mind grinds against their drive. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.

  • stableVenussextileMars0.4° to 1.1° orb

    Francis’s affections open doors for their drive.

  • stableJupiteroppositionNeptune1.3° to 1.5° orb

    Francis’s growth pulls against their imagination from across the wheel. Two ends of one rope.

  • stableSunconjunctionSaturn3.1° to 3.9° orb

  • stableUranustrineNeptune5.2° to 5.3° orb

  • stableMarstrineUranus6.4° to 6.8° orb

  • stableJupitertrinePluto6.4° to 6.6° orb

  • possibleMoontrinePlutoorb from 0.1° to 9.0° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineMercuryorb from 0.7° to 14.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 1.1° to 12.9° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoontrineJupiterorb from 2.6° to 15.4° depending on birth time

  • possibleMoonsextileNeptuneorb from 3.9° to 16.9° depending on birth time

Chart signature

Elements

  • Fire4 of 10
  • Earth3 of 10
  • Air0 of 10
  • Water3 of 10

Modalities

  • Cardinal5 of 10
  • Fixed1 of 10
  • Mutable4 of 10

Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart, with no planets in Air signs.

Francis’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith

What astrologers make of these five, at noon values.

  • ⚷ ChironCancer 4°41′ (moves 0.04° over the day)

    centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it

  • ⚳ CeresGemini 5°54′ (moves 0.37° over the day)

    dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured

  • ♡ ErosPisces 25°50′ (moves 0.64° over the day)

    near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire

  • ⚕ HygieaCapricorn 9°54′ (moves 0.18° over the day)

    main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well

  • ⚸ Black Moon LilithAquarius 11°60′ (moves 0.11° over the day)

    mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed

Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith

  • Hygiea conjunction Mars 0.4°
  • Hygiea square Mercury 0.7°
  • Hygiea sextile Venus 1.2°
  • Ceres square Venus 2.8°
  • Black Moon Lilith sextile Mercury 2.8°

Francis’s dominant planets

  1. 1. ♂ Mars9 pts

    rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects

  2. 2. ♆ Neptune4 pts

    disposes Venus, Jupiter; 2 major aspects

  3. 3. ☿ Mercury2 pts

    disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect

Configurations in Francis’s chart

  • stellium, the shape it makesStellium in Aries · Sun, Mercury, SaturnThree or more planets in one sign (four, or three with a luminary, by AsterNym's count): a concentration astrologers read as that sign's themes dominating the chart.

Minor aspects

semi-sextile, semi-square, quintile, sesquiquadrate, biquintile, quincunx.

  • Mercury semi-sextile Venus 0.5°
  • Saturn quincunx Neptune 0.8°
  • Sun semi-sextile Uranus 0.9°
  • Uranus quintile Pluto 1.2°
  • Mars quintile Jupiter 1.3°

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Francis’s cards

Computed from April 7, 1939. Tap to flip.

Birth tarot card

The Devil

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Western zodiac

Aries

Chinese zodiac

Rabbit 卯

Life Path

33 · Lightkeeper

♂ Ruled by Mars

Iron Fe

The working: BaZi pillarsshow

BaZi pillars

Day Master: yang Wood.

Year

己

yin Earth

卯

Rabbit

Wood

roots & early life

Month

戊

yang Earth

辰

Dragon

Earth

work & drive

Day

day master

甲

yang Wood

戌

Dog

Earth

you & partnership

Where this comes from, and how it is worked out

Francis’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q56094 (CC0), as do the occupations, works and awards above. With no documented birth time this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. The banner above lists what that leaves out. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.

Tropical zodiac, whole-sign houses, modern rulers. Aspects on the western_v1 orb policy; minor ones at 1.5° to 2.5°, skipped where a major already holds. Minor bodies from JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, Lilith as mean apogee. Dominance is an AsterNym score — rulerships, dispositors, aspect count — so other methods can name a different leader.

Portrait by The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The same Francis Ford Coppola at Wikipedia, IMDb, Instagram, YouTube and MusicBrainz.

Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. The full method: how it works.

Traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions, and not endorsed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Quick answers about Francis Ford Coppola’s chart

How old is Francis Ford Coppola?
Francis Ford Coppola is 87 years old, born April 7, 1939 in Detroit, United States.
What zodiac sign is Francis Ford Coppola?
Francis Ford Coppola is an Aries: born April 7, 1939, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day.
What is Francis Ford Coppola's Chinese zodiac animal?
The Rabbit, with the Earth element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 7, 1939 birth.
How tall is Francis Ford Coppola?
Francis Ford Coppola is 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) tall, per the height recorded on Wikidata.
What is Francis Ford Coppola's Life Path number?
Life Path 33, calculated in numerology.
What is Francis Ford Coppola's Chiron sign?
Chiron in Cancer at 4°. Position from JPL Horizons.
Where is Francis Ford Coppola's Black Moon Lilith?
Mean Black Moon Lilith in Aquarius at 11°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
What is Francis Ford Coppola's dominant planet?
Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury, Saturn; 3 major aspects). Neptune is second and Mercury third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.

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